Matthew 1:21

Good News Translation

She will have a son, and you will name him Jesus—because he will save his people from their sins.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:19

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:21

But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year.”

Genesis 18:10

One of them said, “Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.

Jeremiah 23:6

When he is king, the people of Judah will be safe, and the people of Israel will live in peace. He will be called ‘The Lord Our Salvation.’

Jeremiah 33:16

The people of Judah and of Jerusalem will be rescued and will live in safety. The city will be called ‘The Lord Our Salvation.’

Daniel 9:24

“Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple will be rededicated.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice, rejoice, people of Zion! Shout for joy, you people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you! He comes triumphant and victorious, but humble and riding on a donkey— on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Matthew 1:25

But he had no sexual relations with her before she gave birth to her son. And Joseph named him Jesus.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.

Luke 1:31

You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

Luke 2:11

This very day in David's town your Savior was born—Christ the Lord!

Luke 2:21

A week later, when the time came for the baby to be circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given him before he had been conceived.

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 4:42

and they told the woman, “We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world.”

Acts 13:23

It was Jesus, a descendant of David, whom God made the Savior of the people of Israel, as he had promised.

Acts 3:26

And so God chose his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways.”

Acts 4:12

Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us.”

Acts 5:31

God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

Hebrews 7:25

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

1 John 1:7

But if we live in the light—just as he is in the light—then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.

1 John 3:5

You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him.

Revelation 7:14

“I don't know, sir. You do,” I answered. He said to me, “These are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.

Judges 13:3

The Lord's angel appeared to her and said, “You have never been able to have children, but you will soon be pregnant and have a son.

1 Samuel 1:20

So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, and explained, “I asked the Lord for him.”